The Arcades Project - Operi
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May 1852: (."Les Limbes : intimate poems of Georges Durant, collected and published by bis friend Th. Veron." [J45,6] Announcing Les Limbes in the second issue of L 'Echo des marchands de vin: '-"Les Limbes: poems by Charles Baudelaire. The book will be published on February 24, 1849, in Paris and Leipzig." [J45,7] Leconte de Lisle in La Revue europeenne of December 1, 1861. Among other things, he speaks of "'that strange mania for dressing up the discoveries of modern industry in bad verse." He refers to Baudelaire's oeuvre as "stamped with the vigorous seal of long meditation. " The Infe rno plays a big part in his review. Cited in Les Flenrs dn mal, ed. Crepe!, pp. 385, 386. [J45a,1] Swinburne's article in The Spectator of September 6, 1862. The author was twenty-five years old at the time. [J45a,2] Paris, for Gonzague de Reynold, as "antechamber to the Baudelairean HelL' Turn to the second chapter, "La Vision de Paris;' in part 2 (entitled "L'Art et l'oeuvre") of his book Charies Baudelaire (Paris and Geneva, 1920), and you find nothing but a longwinded, subaltern paraphrase of certain poems. [J45a,3] Villon and Baudelaire: "'In the one, we find the mystical and macabre Christianity of an age in the process of losing its faith; in the other, the more or less secularized Christianity of an age seeking to recover its faith." Gonzague de Reynold, Charles Bm,dewire (Paris and Geneva, 1920), p. 220. [J45a,4] Reynold draws a schematic parallel between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries as periods of decadence, in which an extreme realism prevails alongside an extreme idealism, together with unrest, pessimism, and egoism. [J4Sa,S] lmitatio Christi, book 1, paragraph 20, "'De amore solitudinus et silentii": '"Quid potes alibi videre, quod hic non vides? Ecce caelum et terra et omnia elementa: nam ex istls omnia sunt facta. "230 [J4Sa,6] Mallarmc, in the opening piece of Divagations, '"Formerly, in the margins of a BAUDELAIRE " : "TIns torrent of tears illuminated by the bengal light of the artificer Satan, who comes from behind." Stephane Mallarmc, Divagations (Paris, 1897), p. 60. [J45a,7] December 4, 184,7: "'After New Year's Day, I am starting a new kind of writing, . .. the Novel. It is not necessary for me to point out to you the gravity, the beauty, and the infinite possihilities of that art." Ch
more deplorable than to be utterly without money at such a time." Ch. B., Lettres a sa mere (Paris, 1932), p. 33.232 [145a,9J ·'From the end of the Second Empire down to our own day, the evolution in philosophy and the blooming of Les Flew's du mal have been concomitant. This explains the peculiar destiny of a work whose fundamental parts, though still enveloped in shadow, are becoming clearer with every passing day." Alfred Capus, Le Gaulois, 1921 (cited in Les Fumrs du mal, cd. Crepet [Paris, 1931], p. 50). [146,lJ On March 27, 1852, he mentions to his mother some " sickly articles, hastily written." Lettres a sa mere (Paris, 1932), p. 39.2 :l3 [J46,2] March 27, 1852: "'To beget children is the only thing which gives moral intelligence to the female. As for young women without status and without children, they show nothing but coquetry, implacability, and elegant debauchery." Lettres ii, sa mere (Paris, 1932), p. 43.2:14 [146,3J In a letter to his mother, Baudelaire refers to the reading room, in addition to the cafe, as a refuge in which to work. [146,4J December 4, 1854: "Should I resign myself to going to bed and staying there for lack of clothes?" Lettres it sa mer'e (Paris , 1932), p. 74.23.5 (On p. 101, he asks for the loan of some handkerchiefs.) [146,5J December 20, 1855, after toying with the idea of petitioning for a subvention: "'Never will my name appear on filthy government paper." Lettres a sa mere, p. 83. 21 6 [146,6J Problematic passage from a letter of July 9, 1857, concerning Les Flew"s du mal: "Moreover, alarmed myseUby the horror I was going to inspire, I cut out a t.hird of it at the proof stage." Lettres it sa mere, p. 110.2:l7 [J46,7] Spleen de Paris appears for a time, in 1857 (see p. Ill, letter of July 9, 1857), to have had the title Poemes nocturnes. [J46,8] Planned essay (Lettres ii. sa mere, p. 139) on Machiavelli and Condorcet. [146,9J May 6, 1861: " 'And what about God!' you will say. I wish with all my heart (with what sincerity I alone can know) to believe that an exterior invisible being is concerned with my fate. But what can I do to make myseU believe it?" Lettres it sa mere, p. 173.2:w [146,10J May 6, 1861: "1 am forty years old and I cannot think of school without pain, any more than I can think of the fear which my stepfather inspired in me." Lettres a sa mere, p. 176.23' [J46a,lJ
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May 1852: (."Les Limbes : intimate poems of Georges Durant, collected and<br />
published by bis friend Th. Veron." [J45,6]<br />
Announcing Les Limbes in the second issue of L 'Echo des marchands de vin: '-"Les<br />
Limbes: poems by Charles Baudelaire. <strong>The</strong> book will be published on February<br />
24, 1849, in Paris and Leipzig." [J45,7]<br />
Leconte de Lisle in La Revue europeenne of December 1, 1861. Among other<br />
things, he speaks of "'that strange mania for dressing up the discoveries of modern<br />
industry in bad verse." He refers to Baudelaire's oeuvre as "stamped with the<br />
vigorous seal of long meditation. " <strong>The</strong> Infe rno plays a big part in his review. Cited<br />
in Les Flenrs dn mal, ed. Crepe!, pp. 385, 386. [J45a,1]<br />
Swinburne's article in <strong>The</strong> Spectator of September 6, 1862. <strong>The</strong> author was<br />
twenty-five years old at the time. [J45a,2]<br />
Paris, for Gonzague de Reynold, as "antechamber to the Baudelairean HelL'<br />
Turn to the second chapter, "La Vision de Paris;' in part 2 (entitled "L'Art et<br />
l'oeuvre") of his book Charies Baudelaire (Paris and Geneva, 1920), and you find<br />
nothing but a longwinded, subaltern paraphrase of certain poems. [J45a,3]<br />
Villon and Baudelaire: "'In the one, we find the mystical and macabre Christianity<br />
of an age in the process of losing its faith; in the other, the more or less secularized<br />
Christianity of an age seeking to recover its faith." Gonzague de Reynold, Charles<br />
Bm,dewire (Paris and Geneva, 1920), p. 220. [J45a,4]<br />
Reynold draws a schematic parallel between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries<br />
as periods of decadence, in which an extreme realism prevails alongside an<br />
extreme idealism, together with unrest, pessimism, and egoism. [J4Sa,S]<br />
lmitatio Christi, book 1, paragraph 20, "'De amore solitudinus et silentii": '"Quid<br />
potes alibi videre, quod hic non vides? Ecce caelum et terra et omnia elementa:<br />
nam ex istls omnia sunt facta. "230 [J4Sa,6]<br />
Mallarmc, in the opening piece of Divagations, '"Formerly, in the margins of a<br />
BAUDELAIRE " : "TIns torrent of tears illuminated by the bengal light of the artificer<br />
Satan, who comes from behind." Stephane Mallarmc, Divagations (Paris, 1897),<br />
p. 60. [J45a,7]<br />
December 4, 184,7: "'After New Year's Day, I am starting a new kind of writing, . ..<br />
the Novel. It is not necessary for me to point out to you the gravity, the beauty, and<br />
the infinite possihilities of that art." Ch
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